I think, at the end of the day, the movie is limited by the fact that there are many more people invested in the meme “RBG” than have any interest in Justice Ginsberg, and is unable to afford to go beyond bland veneration of her image. I have yet to here of any of her “fans” take the time to read any of her Opinions,…

You know how the GPS tells you when you’re approaching a turn and to turn before you’ve actually passed it? Try doing that when directing your kid’s route. My dad not doing that drove me crazy when I was learning. It might even make sense to have the GPS handle navigation instructions and focus on the specifics of…

It’s because, all of a sudden, the Russian Mafia became completely unable to kill people. It’s particularly evident in how they just completely abandoned the girlfriend with the gas running for hours so it could explode after she escaped, and also that Dinklidge didn’t kill her or tip off the authorities at the end…

The central theory is that tantrums are complete emotional dysregulation, so there’s not really anything you can do until the kid is sane again (such that there’s also a lot of placebo effect from people doing things until the tantrum has run its course).

I’ve been referring to animals and children of unidentifiable sex with the third-person, singular neuter pronoun for decades, though. Have you seriously never heard someone ask “is it a boy or a girl?”

English already has a neuter singular, so the drive for something new seems to be more of a drive to be special than an attempt to solve any language deficiency. It’s much like how we already have a neuter demonym for topics related to Latin America: “Latin.”

At least as actually recommended by its developers/proponents, there actually isn’t any evidence that cry-it-out techniques (like Farberizing) leads to emotional issues. It’s also mostly about just letting your kid fall asleep instead of training him to get stimulation instead of sleep by crying. It’s pretty stressful…

I’m sure I’ll get quite a few from my mother-in-law, who always told my wife to lie about her home life to physicians and teachers, a.k.a. mandated reporters.

One thing I’ve noticed is that “mindfulness” and “meditation practice,” at least as I’ve read and heard them described, are basically the same as (one form of) the emotional self-regulation that I naturally learned as a boy, but with an extra dose of orientalist mysticism. I’d think it was specific to myself, but I…

Or, more precisely, he knows what it’s like to be a person of color other than black.

It seems like both publishing houses were absolutely pumping out new characters in the ‘70's and then massively cut back their selections to marquee characters and team books in the ‘80'. It would be nice to hear an industry-focused (rather than character/artistry-focused) account of what was going on there to produce…

Isn’t that exactly what Jeffry Toobin was forced to resign for?

She had a chance to ask for help right at the beginning, but decided she didn’t want to take the time for treatment.

An early ed/daycare teacher. My wife is student teaching in a preschool (for some reason, it gets more credit to her special education degree and plans to work in middle school than actually working in a middle school), and the stories she comes back with pretty firmly prove that learning challenges are no barrier to…

Looking at the list of expenses, it just looks like she submitted COVID costs for COVID reimbursement, and people are going after her for fulfilling her basic responsibilities so they can show their piety by burning a witch.

Sprinklers are set off by heat, not smoke, and it generally takes a lot.

I’m having trouble figuring out what he’s suggesting McD’s actually did. Is he claiming that they refuse franchise applications from black owners in “better” (by some business standard) locations?

Districts that kept schools open had fewer infections than similar districts that closed them. It’s always interesting how people “believe in science” until the science shows something they don’t want to see.

Maybe, or maybe not. A lot of ink has been spilled about him being said to be married to a “Kushite” in some places and a “Midianite” in others, with one theory being based around there being a culture near Midian occasionally refered to as “Qushi.”

That last paragraph can go double in the case of the example couple, as Emhoff being Jewish presents the whole interfaith marriage issue (as well as his also being an ethnic minority marrying into the goyish majority), particularly contentious in this configuration because Judaism is matrilineal.